HMS Never to be Finished - Posh content

[Roobarb]

So had a few free minutes today and knocked this up on CAD

Not sure which way to go yet, but it's another tiny step forward.

Again, I think I'll go with stainless for this.

[Roobarb]

Outlaw is just posh Ratlook

Great quote!!!! Hope you don't mind if I plagiarize it just a little...

[Roobarb]

Managed to push this through a printer today as a test in plastic.

Seems to look okay...

Shame about the colour. Seems to look okay in principle.

Next to make it in metal and make the mirror version for the other side!

[Roobarb]

One last version...

Porsche SC styleeeeeeeee.

Had a couple of parcels arrive last night. Couldn't get to them due to late night and tired 8yr old.

Hopefully my bushings and cheap window pop out set!

[Roobarb]

Argh. Damn clutch pin is holding things up.

Need to borrow a press to push it out. Won't happen until Monday now.

[Roobarb]

***BREAKING NEWS***

 

Big hammer 1, amazingly strong roll pin 0!

In the end, drilling the center of the pin to find a strong location for a punch (killing the edge on two drill bits) and then big hammer seemed to do the trick.

 

Wish the whole car was made of the stuff. Wow, that really was fun!

 

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Didn't stop me from ordering a drill press and the vice of my dreams last night

[vulgalour]

Oh no, it's a restoration!  Looks like you're having fun, that's the important bit.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

How hard would it be to backdate this a year or two?

 

Is it just bumpers and a flat engine cover?

Or do you need new wings.

 

 

 

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO 

 

What every overpaid polo neck wearing wanker called Lucien has is a fucking slim bumper 2.4S or another bastard RS lookalike. Fuxake. Imagination required.

 

A G/H series (73-75 impact bumper) 2.7 is a rare thing now. The K Jet motor with 175 bhp was brisk, tractable and good on fuel. The 150 bhp base 911 wasn't shabby as they weigh bugger all. Restoring it to be a mint Zermatt silver slim body H Series 1975 911S, with or without the chrome bezel US lights is a fine plan. I'd personally colour change it to Viper green with SC rear wings, wider rear Fuchs and the RS ducktail so that it resembles the 1974/5 Carrera 2.7, the rare impact bumper car with all the 2.7 RS running gear (2.7 mechanical injection 210 bhp, RS suspension and brakes) but without the Classic and Sportscar Investment Look How Rich I Am connotations.

 

It was built with impact bumpers, that's how these should stay. It's as bad as wankers fitting Mark 1 Mini rear lights and grille to a later car. Just No.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

This is how it should look. Observe.

 

911S or 2.7 Carrera? Hmmmm.

 

 

[Roobarb]

I have a lot of love for this...

I've had it on my phone and iPad for forever!

But... I really like the narrow body style and have wanted one forever. Well, since I was mid teens and ended up with a string of beetles as I couldnt afford a 911 or 356.

Nothing is set yet, and the more I learn about the 2.7, the more I think it's going to stay.

I'm thinking of that with a nice set of carbs and a cam.

It's much lighter than the following engines. Just depends how brave I get restoring it.

Failing that I can buy myself a polo neck...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The green shrouding tells me it's an original 2.7 K Jet unit - the main issue with these was the head studs pulling out but these days they can be TimeSerted - not a bad plan regardless. They were magnesium crankcases iirc.

 

Please don't slim bumper it though. There's a charm about an early impact bumper car.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

How yours looked 42 years ago!

 

 

[Roobarb]

Very close. It is a 25th anniversary model, one of the first, built in mid '74.

It had the optional front spotlights but only one wing mirror.

Unfortunately the original anniversary interior is long gone. It didn't even come with the car.

You have certainly given me something to think about.

If the car had been halfway decent in the first place, it was going to look like this:

In fact, I missed selling my last car and buying this one (that I had my eye on) by a week.

That said, long hoods have always been a favorite...

I've got this week (evenings) and then I'm away for work for two weeks, so I will have more time to think, and more time to read my book about overhauling 911 engines (they use a 2.7 in that too!)

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I inherited my Dad's 964 C4 6-7 years ago after he passed on, but elected to leave it in Canada and the family solicitor ended up buying it. That was a nice one, never rusty (the 964 with plastic arch liners was a massive step forward) and one of the first built in early 1989. It had a 993 motor fitted and it went like fuck. Guards red with black leather, it was a German market car so ready LHD for Canada where the registration process was a quick check, later the lights to the sidelights come on with the ignition (I think) and a rear number plate.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

If it's a 1974, I guess you could rebuild it as a long bonnet car - it's only a year out. I just hate it when eighties cars get this treatment. The old ones do look good and late 1973 ones did have CIS (K Jet).

 

Just throw them off the scent by badging it as a 911E in brown. 

 

 

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

2.2 and 2.4 Targas do look epic:

 

 

[Supernaut]

If it's a 1974, I guess you could rebuild it as a long bonnet car - it's only a year out. I just hate it when eighties cars get this treatment. The old ones do look good and late 1973 ones did have CIS (K Jet).

 

Just throw them off the scent by badging it as a 911E in brown. 

 

Brown 911 on Fuchs wheels! My dream spec.

 

Totally useless post, I know.

[Roobarb]

Ha ha ha. Brown with Fuchs eh!

 

Once upon a time, and if the car had been brown at some point, then maybe... but I have a 'thing' for white cars and I really like the color orange... not sure where that might lead me.

Still not 100% sure on long bonnet. Apparently someone is now making ABS impact bumpers that are about a small village lighter thank the US spec tat that was on my car.

The decision is still a very long way away yet though.

Still some welding, painting and panicing (over the engine and the electrics) to do yet!

[Roobarb]

Well my bargain window latch turned up.

I now know why it was so cheap!

At least I now have enough parts to copy to make a new pair for myself.

Think I will be making the screwed in, three screw section out of stainless too, as this one looks like it has the pox!

It makes the one I do have look good!

[Roobarb]

This is kind of floating my boat at the moment...

Should I be buying that polo-neck now?

 

I'm thinking of a light weight version of that, with a nicely tuned 2.7 ticking away in the back.

[Junkman]

[Asimo]

Please convert it to SportoMatic.  You could forget all about that pesky clutch-pedal pin!

[somewhatfoolish]

Well my bargain window latch turned up.

I now know why it was so cheap!

At least I now have enough parts to copy to make a new pair for myself.

Think I will be making the screwed in, three screw section out of stainless too, as this one looks like it has the pox!

It makes the one I do have look good!

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Because Mazak, because monkey metal.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

This is kind of floating my boat at the moment...IMG_4704.JPG

Should I be buying that polo-neck now?

 

I'm thinking of a light weight version of that, with a nicely tuned 2.7 ticking away in the back.

 

 

You'd probably need to start with a better engine. The K Jet 2.7 was pretty low spec in terms of materials, a plodding engine. 

 

That white thing does nothing for me I'm afraid. Ditto all that Singer and PS Autoart stuff. Old Butzi got it right first time.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

That looks ridiculous. How to ruin a 911. 

[Roobarb]

That's what's so cool about the 911 chassis. Essentially didn't change for 20 plus years and lots of different ways to go.

[Guest Hooli]

 

I don't like 911s but even I think that's ruined.

[Roobarb]

So I ordered my knob and it dutifully turned up...

And in the continuing style of innuendo, a quick spit and polish later, left me reasonably satisfied.

 

There are a few things I'm going to change for the final one that's going to be fitted, but for now, it shows promise and has a nice weight to it.

 

If I'm honest, there hasn't been much garage action over winter. It's just so damn cold out there, that the heater is struggling to keep up.

Shivering while trying to mess with a car, takes all the fun out of it!

[Roobarb]

Santa was nice and brought me a new alloy engine lid.

It is freakishly light at 10lbs.

 

I'm glad Santa is so clued in - it turned out the old lid was really rare from a very early turbo car. It now lives is So-Cal and for only a small amount more, I get a good set of panels in return that I need for my build.

 

For some idea how rare, it looks like I'm up for:

Right front wing

Left front wing

Long hood

Front bumper

Rear bumper

 

That's pretty much all the panels I need sorted!

 

I'm still going to be small changed to death. $38 for a spring for the pedal assembly, $75 for two transmission bolts... parts for these cars are just crazy priced.

[xtriple]

It astounds me how 'prestige' car makers charge like wounded rhinos for any spare part you need. Bits of wire (called 'looms' apparently but two bits of wire with plastic connectors do not seem much like looms to me...) for £124 plus VAT. Or your 2 bolts for £70 utterly insane. Still, in for a penny... I like your new engine lid